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I find it rather more disturbing - that people rationalize explanations for various discovered "facts", and as our understanding changes and the "facts" change,
by barrkel 9y ago
I find it rather more disturbing - that people rationalize explanations for various discovered "facts", and as our understanding changes and the "facts" change, just as easily come up with new rationalizations.
It exposes rationalization as story-telling.
- RangerScience 9y agoSure, but these two points of data make a pretty nice line: [My assumption is that] people (at large) did not update on socially propagated facts. Now they do. Maybe tomorrow it'll be further improvement. (Or, maybe it's not that people are improving, but that the social transmission now exists and people haven't changed...?)